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The intent to build the temple was announced by the church's First Presidency on July 20, 1998. [2] Located in Sofiivska Borshchahivka, [3] near Kyiv (the capital of Ukraine), it is the LDS Church's 11th temple in Europe, the first in the territory of the former Soviet Union, [4] and the second in the former Eastern Bloc.
The temple was finally restored in 1995 after Ukraine obtained its independence and the construction was accomplished in two years. The new Dormition Church was consecrated in 2000. [5] Within the Dormition Cathedral is located the Church of Saint John the Baptist.
The original temple was built in the 12th century and no drawings or visual depictions of it remain. The second temple was built at the time of the Cossack Hetmanate and was disassembled by the Russian authorities in the 19th century. It was replaced with the current temple, often referred to as the Refectory Church of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.
Kyiv, as seen during World War II. Babi Yar, a location in Kyiv, became a site of one of the most infamous Nazi WWII war crimes. During two days in September 1941, at least 33,771 Jews from Kyiv and its suburbs were massacred at Babi Yar by the SS Einsatzgruppen, according to their own reports.
Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, is an architectural monument of Kievan Rus'.The former cathedral is one of the city's best known landmarks and the first heritage site in Ukraine to be inscribed on the World Heritage List along with the Kyiv Cave Monastery complex.
St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery is used as the headquarters of the Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine. [58] [59] The rector of the monastery has the rank of diocesan bishop. [60] The Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, and the primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, is Epiphanius I of Ukraine. [61]
History of Saint Volodymyr Cathedral, Kiev History website (in English) (in Ukrainian) Official website (in Russian) Sobory.ru — information about the cathedral; ukraine-gateway.org.ua — St. Volodymyr's (Volodymyrsky) Cathedral (in Ukrainian) Володимирський собор Archived 2007-11-02 at the Wayback Machine in Wiki ...
Location Notes 1 Saint Sophia's Cathedral: 11th century Kyiv, Sofiyivska ploshcha Constantinople: 2 Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ [1] building since 2007 Kyiv, 3 Zaliznychne Shose UOC-Moscow: 3 Patriarchal cathedral of St. Volodymyr: 1896 Kyiv, 20 Shevchenko bulvar UOC-Kyiv: 4 Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ: 2013